‘Victoria’ Premieres

‘Victoria’ Premieres

By Ann Shayne 1/15/17

For those of you living in a cave, where you don’t know it’s 2017: lucky you! We wish we were living in a cave these days.

But we’re not, so at least we have discovered the good news that once again, public television is delivering unto us a divine wallow in a distant age when the queens were tiny, the costumes extravagant, and the period distant.

The period in question: Victorian. Literally! As in: Victoria, the queen who ruled for 63 years, seven months, and two days.

Just when we’ve all run out of episodes of The Crown, when Downton Abbey is but a distant memory, PBS’s Masterpiece is delivering salvation in the form of Victoria—a binge-proof, old-school, once-a-week series.

Hallelujah! We need to stretch this thing out, people. It will be shown on Sundays for the next seven weeks, and I for one will aim hard to watch this in real time. At this point I am craving escape so much that I will happily tell Siri to remind me to go turn on the teevee and watch a show.

I have been watching in real time, and it’s enthralling! I will be sad when it’s done, but I’m sure PBS will come up with something else to keep me interested. Have you seen the Animal Spies episodes? So fun!

Been watching it … but am really really disappointed. It’s Masterpiece Theater for Teenage Girls. The “romance” between Victoria and Lord M makes me crazy, it is so bloody inaccurate (he was so much older and nowhere near as good looking as Rufus Sewell …)